Guest Thinkers — February 22, 2011

The Creative Mind

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

This one-minute video uses Chinese brush painting style to guide the viewer through the creation process. Anyway, this aesthetically-pleasing video has already been viewed more than 130,000 times on YouTube and favorited nearly 1,000 times.

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A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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Business

Great minds don’t think alike: The business case for neurodiversity

Temple Grandin’s story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.

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High Culture

Why we need a better Turing test for AI art

With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.

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Hard Science

The weirdest stuff we’ve sent into orbit

Fifteen human space oddities.

The Present

Khan Academy’s founder on how AI can supercharge “mastery learning”

“We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.

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The Future

Why ChatGPT feels more “intelligent” than Google Search

We will believe in AGI when it calls on Facetime.

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Target’s virtual advertising campaign

The Wall Street Journal referred to it as “Target’s never-ending quest to be hipper than the competition” — an upcoming fashion show that will feature holograms instead of models. The […]